BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250819T123737EDT-9472numOnP@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250819T163737Z DESCRIPTION:Date: 24 September\, 2019\, 5:00 - 7:00 PM\n\nLocation: Atwater Library\n\nPlease join Poetry Matters for a reading with Montreal poets S tephanie Bolster and Susan Elmslie\, featuring recent work.\n\nSusan Elmsl ie’s second collection is Museum of Kindness (2017)\, shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Her first trade co llection\, I\, Nadja\, and Other Poems (2006) won the Quebec Writers’ Fede ration A.M. Klein Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize\, the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Memorial Award and a ReLit Award. Her poems have also appeared in several Canadian journals\, anthologies\, and in a prize-winning chapbook\, When Your Body Takes to T rembling (Cranberry Tree\, 1996). Elmslie teaches at Dawson College in Mon treal.\n\nStephanie Bolster’s White Stone: The Alice Poems won the Governo r General's Literary Award for poetry and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Awar d in 1998\, and Two Bowls of Milk (1999) received the Archibald Lampman Aw ard. A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth (2012)\, was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Work from Long Exposure\, her manuscript-i n-progress\, was a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012. Bolster teac hes creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal.\n\nOn some of El mslie’s and Bolster’s work:\n\n[Bolster’s] A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth is a book with a coherent vision of nature—constructed or framed \, both in the present and in the recent past—through zoos\, aviaries\, fo rmal gardens\, menageries… Informed by the author’s grand tour of … zoos a nd gardens\, these poems provide a strong lens for considering the many pa radoxes of inter-species relations\; they open up the possibility of hones t\, unsentimental elegy. The book is … a model of what might be called inv estigative poetry\, taking the poet’s combination of perceptual acuity\, c raft\, music and sensibility into these richly troubled places (prisons of \, monuments to\, museums for the lost natural world) where “arcades sell postcards of old photographs of the arcades\,” and where questions of what it means to be human\, to be animal\, to be other and to be art are tangi bly in the air.\n\nhttps://www.brickbooks.ca/books/a-page-from-the-wonders -of-life-on-earth/\n\nMuseum of Kindness\, Montreal poet Susan Elmslie's s earching second collection of poetry\, is a book that bravely examines 'ge nres' familiar and hard to fathom: the school shooting\, PTSD\, raising a child who has a disability. It is a collection about thresholds big and sm all. In poems grounded in the domestic and in workaday life\, poems burnis hed by silence and the weight of the unspoken\, poems by turns ironic and sincere\, Elmslie asks 'What\, exactly\, is / unthinkable?' Confronted by 'the mismatch / between our need for meaning / and our inability to find i t\,' the poet reflects on the possibility of the miraculous in hard-won in sights\, in 'a comparatively / uncomplicated joy.'\n\nhttps://alllitup.ca/ books/M/Museum-of-Kindness\n\n \n DTSTART:20190924T210000Z DTEND:20190924T230000Z LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Westmount\, H3Z 1X4\, Atwater Library\, 1200 Atwater Ave SUMMARY:Wonder and Kindness: Susan Elmslie and Stephanie Bolster URL:/poetrymatters/channels/event/wonder-and-kindness- susan-elmslie-and-stephanie-bolster-300148 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR